Welcome to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough safeguarding resources page for all professionals (statutory and voluntary) who work with adults at risk and their families / carers.
Situated here are resources, identified by the Adult’s Safeguarding Partnership Board, as helping to support practitioners to safeguard adults at risk.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have undertaken two Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) where it was identified that practitioners and managers needed to be more aware of the impact of alcohol use on an adult at risk, assessment of risk and finding support for them.
Joe (Cambridgeshire) Joe-report-SAR-Final.pdf Joe-7-Minute-Briefing-v2.pdf
Ben (Peterborough) Ben-SAR-Exec-Summary.pdf Ben-7-Minute-Briefing-Ben-.pdf
From the learning of those SARs and to promote awareness for supporting safeguarding practice an ‘Alcohol Harm Reduction Advice Card’ and ‘ Leaflet’ have been designed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough public health services, drug and alcohol services and housing.
Alcohol Change UK have published a series of webinars as part of their Cognitive Impairment in Dependent Drinkers Project and are relevant to anyone who encounters dependent drinkers in their work. The Blue Light Approach: Identifying and addressing cognitive impairment in dependent drinkers | Alcohol Change UK
How to use legal powers to safeguard highly vulnerable dependent drinkers in England and Wales
The Blue Light Approach: Identifying and addressing cognitive impairment in dependent drinkers
For briefings from Safeguarding Adults Reviews please visit Safeguarding Adults Reviews | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board (safeguardingcambspeterborough.org.uk)
Listed below are useful resource packs for professionals on ‘Self-Neglect’. This contains; safeguarding guidance, information, leaflets, training slides and website links to e learning training.
The Toolbox consists of a set of slides with the latest Adult Safeguarding Partnership Board’s; strategies, policies, procedures, practitioner guidance’s and assessment tools.
Found here is a slide pack to support practitioner’s basic understanding about safeguarding adults at risk. The slides can be used within single agency training.
